More feelings on Elena of Avalor ships
Well, I’ve been working on my next headcanons post, but as it seems, it’s getting really away from me, both in terms of length and in terms of inherent darkness.
I apologize for that in advance, given how those headcanons will adress two beloved characters, one who’s a focal point of the series, and another who’s a more secondary but still relevant character.
But in the meantime, I realized I forgot to share my feelings on some Elena of Avalor ships, so here they are.
Again, my feelings on them are divided by categories.
Changes of stance since the last time
Naomi ships - Well... I said earlier that I didn’t really ship her with anyone, but I recently changed my mind after reading a wonderful oneshot by @pizzansunshine. She portrayed both of them so well and in character that I really warmed to the ship, and only warmed even more to it after reading more stuff about them, which sadly doesn’t seem plentiful.
Hopefully that will change soon!
In the meantime, the SS Alonsaomi has one more passenger!
And if you want to read @pizzansunshine‘s oneshot, go here:
https://pizzansunshine.tumblr.com/post/177903613574/alonsaomi-with-in-the-water-confession-of
New ships
Fairly-invested-in tier
Manuelentina (Princess Valentina/Manuel) - Again, @pizzansunshine can explain why they work better than me... but to sum things up, they basically look like they really mesh well together and have a close bond. That’s all I really have to say about it.
Not-really-invested-in-but-it-looks-like-it-could-be-cute tier
Esteoma (Esteban/Doña Paloma) -
I’ll be clear. I don’t feel Esteban is enough at peace with himself to be open to a romantic relationship. Mind you, with this I mean that I don’t think Esteban himself is open to the idea of a romantic relationship, not that I am not open to him having one!
At his current state (or at least, the state I last saw him in) I’d say he won’t open himself to a romantic relationship.
But once he’s more at peace with himself (which will probably only happen after he fesses up to what he did) I could see a relationship between him and Doña Paloma working.
Crackship-that-still-sort-of-looks-like-it-could-work tier
Fiero/Prisma (from Sofia the First) - I promise you, I’m not on any drugs! Though ultimately that only makes things more confusing, because I’m not entirely sure where this pairing came from, much less why I even had the idea of shipping Fiero with anyone.
At any rate, this ship would depend a lot on whether Fiero is redeemable (and if you want to share your thoughts on that, feel free to!).
Personally, after what I came up with about him for my headcanons on Alacazar, some musings I made for my headcanons about him, and the realization that more evil characters got redeemed in other works of fiction, I feel there may be a minuscule, but present amount of potential for redemption in him. It would almost certainly involve a special set of circumstances and take quite some time, but I’d say it could happen.
As for Prisma... well, I can’t speak much about her, but in short, I feel like she and Fiero would be a ‘birds of a feather’ sort of ship. To those who are wondering about the age difference... well, I confess I looked at personality similarities first, but given we don’t know Prisma’s age in canon (as far as I know, at least) I’d say she could be about Fiero’s age (i.e. in her 130s for my headcanons) and just be so immature that she looks like she’s way younger.
And I’m gonna shut up before anyone gives me the side-eye about shipping these two (probably too late)...
Characters I don’t ship with anyone
Shuriki - She may be the only character in the whole series who will be in this category (though from what I’ve seen of him, Cruz is a close second).
To be short and to the point, I don’t ship her with anyone because I don’t think she’s capable of feeling anything resembling love or that she has the capacity to ever develop such a feeling in the future.
She may have had it once (and that’s a VERY BIG may), but I don’t think she currently has it or that she will ever develop before she leaves once and for all.
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This is it for now. All of my new thoughts about ships in Elena of Avalor since last Friday.
I hope you enjoy them, and as always I look forward to any comments anyone may have!